Thank you for the great selection of images that you entered in our weekly iPhone photography contest. This week’s theme was “Storytelling” and any iPhone photos that tell an interesting, dramatic or emotional story could be submitted. Telling stories is the key to creating powerful photos that grab and hold the viewer’s attention. A great photo should evoke emotion and intrigue the viewer, making them want to know more about the story behind the picture or allowing them to create their own story about what’s going on. Here are 30 wonderful examples of storytelling through iPhone photography. [Read More]

Creating a photo that looks like a still frame from a movie is a great way of telling a powerful story through your iPhone photography. A movie can sweep you into another place and time, evoking strong emotions that connect you with the characters. And with a bit of vision you can create a single photo that does the very same thing. In this tutorial you’ll discover how to take beautiful cinematic-style iPhone photos that tell dramatic and powerful stories. [Read More]

People love drama! It’s exciting, gets your imagination going, and helps you escape the mundane. With film and television it’s easy to build a dramatic story, but how do you convey drama and evoke strong emotions when capturing a single photograph? It’s actually easy when you know how! In this tutorial you’ll discover nine highly effective tips for creating a more dramatic mood in your iPhone photos, allowing you to tell powerful, intriguing and emotional stories with your images. [Read More]

Thank you to everyone who submitted such wonderful photos in our weekly iPhone photography contest. This week’s theme was “Mood” and any iPhone photos that captured a strong mood or atmosphere, evoking emotion and feeling in the viewer, could be submitted. We had over 400 fantastic entries that used a variety of techniques such as subject matter, lighting, color and weather to create powerful moods and emotions. Here are my favorite photos this week. [Read More]

One of the most powerful, yet difficult, elements to master in photography is capturing emotion and feeling. A really great image is one that conveys a mood and pulls the viewer into the scene. If a photo tells a story and tugs at the heartstrings, it’s successful. In this tutorial you’ll discover how to use light, location, weather, colors, movement, subject matter and composition to create extraordinary iPhone photos that connect with the viewer, evoking emotion and feeling that help tell the story you want to convey. [Read More]